January 2026

For over a decade, A Simple Gesture (ASG) has made it easy for Greensboro residents to support local food pantries. From their Green Bag Program, where households fill a bag of pantry-needed items for volunteer pickup, to the Food Recovery Program, rescuing thousands of pounds of food daily from local businesses, ASG ensures that no good food goes to waste and that vulnerable families are fed.

Leslie Loyd
President & COO of A Simple Gesture

 

“It provides a sustainable supply of food…we’re up to 6,000 households now, and it’s allowed us to support pantries providing groceries to children every single weekend,” Leslie shared.

ASG also runs the Share Program, putting refrigerators in schools so children can take home unopened food, and is focused on supporting refugee families with culturally appropriate foods. This effort reaches about 700 people, or 60,000 meals a month!


When ASG faced challenges in fundraising and development, Kate stepped in to guide the team:

“We had zero fundraising expertise, and Kate was so good at helping us strategize, creating an annual calendar we still use, and giving us confidence. We are experts at feeding people and she helped us see that we can show up genuinely.”

Kate’s consulting also helped ASG rethink volunteer engagement and donor experience:

“We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how we treat donors. Small gestures mean so much, and her insight has transformed our culture.”


Leslie emphasizes that relationships, collaboration, and values are at the heart of ASG’s success:

“Collaboration is a great thing. It helps so many areas and makes every dollar go further. We show up genuinely and let your passion shine through. Kate’s advice was to make people collaborators in what we’re doing.”

Thanks to ASG and its generous community, over $16 million worth of food has been passed to local nonprofits and thousands of families have access to reliable, nourishing meals.

“We have an awesome community,” Leslie concluded. “That’s really the heart of what we do.”

Learn more about A Simple Gesture at https://www.asimplegesture.org/.